Thursday, November 08, 2012

The Suspense Continues

Super Tuesday refused to throw up a winner for Democrats. SUTANU GURU analyses

When experience and chutzpah clash with charisma and vision, the outcome could still remain uncertain. That is precisely what the results of Super Tuesday have been indicating as 24 states voted in the primaries to choose the candidates for both the Republicans and the Democrats. In the Republican camp where George Bush and his pathetic legacy is an albatross around the neck of hopefuls, Senator John McCain has taken a decisive lead over his close rivals Mitt Romney and the deeply conservative Mike Huckabee, Though the two have refused to give up, most analysts contend that McCain will almost certainly be the Republican candidate for the November 2008 Presidential elections.

But most eyes were not on the Republicans fighting over the tattered legacy of the unpopular Bush. They were focused on the two people who stand on the threshold of creating history in the United States of America. They are experienced Hillary Clinton and charismatic Barack Obama, who are in a neck to neck race to bag the Democratic nomination. Hillary gets help from the chutzpah and guile of the unparalleled ‘communicator’ Bill Clinton, while Obama now walks around with an aura and visions of a vision that seem to rival the tumultuous years of John F. Kennedy.

Super Tuesday could not decide whether it is Hillary or Obama who will be the Democratic candidate to take on McCain in the forthcoming elections. Hillary won the real big states like New York and California, while Obama all but swept the so-called Middle America with big wins in Georgia, Kansas and Idaho. No pundit is willing to stick her neck out and predict who the eventual winner will be. Guy Cecil, Clinton’s political field director, agreed. “This campaign is going to continue and will not end today,’’ he said. “We feel like we’ve had a good night, but this contest is far from over,” Cecil added.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.

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